On 5/29/2013 3:01 PM, Helpful person wrote:
> On May 29, 1:19 pm, Ema Nymton > wrote:

>> Dice some carrots and saute those along with the chopped onion and
>> garlic, carrots usually sweeten your sauce enough that you do not have
>> to use sugar. Sometimes a pinch of sugar helps disguise the canned
>> tomato flavor from tinned sauces.

> Why on earth would you want to make the sauce sweet? I will never
> understand why in the US everything needs to be sweet,

I was taught to put carrots in sauce to balance any bitterness
by Italians from Italy. I don't, but that's not the point.

nancy